Opinion

The Lightning Network is one of the most exciting and innovative technologies built on Bitcoin, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood... Not everyone will run a Lightning node, and that’s okay. Custodians feels like a compromise, and in a way, it is: Running Lightning infrastructure isn’t meant for everyone.

The bitcoin price is yo-yoing around like a piñata. What is going on? Who shoved it? And what’s it to do with Powell, the Fed, the bitcoin treasury companies and, uh, just ordinary markets doing markets-y things?

The weekly bitcoin price overview from your glorified price therapist, I’m here to remind you again that market prices move for reasons nobody can point to. Whatever bitcoin's price does means absolutely nothing for the broader reasons why we’re here.

Kenneth Rogoff spoke, and the Bitcoin hornet’s nest awoke.  When the celebrated Harvard economist and former chief economist at the IMF yesterday publicly confessed that...

With bitcoin treasury companies bringing Wall Street into hype mode and new Saylor contenders launching weekly, what's a Bitcoiner supposed to do? At this, our fiat end times, mNAVs games and regulatory arbitrage are either a recipe for disaster or the blueprint for unbelievable wealth.

Is the Trump administration actually interested in defending crypto in the U.S.? Tornado Cash questions remain unanswered.

Bitcoin art and Bitcoin corporations don't seem to mix. But for decades — indeed centuries — companies have collected art to express their role...

Money is key to markets, enabling trade and economic calculation. Its value, its purchasing power, is eroded by inflation, which benefits the connected at the expense of savers.

The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arrive through a nationwide ban or an emergency executive order. It quietly...

I recently sat down with Preston Pysh to discuss bitcoin and all these companies with bitcoin treasuries popping up. I had no idea he would completely change my mind on what they do.